The Energy Department this week issued the final request for proposals for a small-business-only contract to provide technical support for a legally mandated environmental review DOE must conduct before finalizing a two-phase plan to decontaminate and demolish facilities at the West Valley Demonstration Project: a former spent-fuel reprocessing plant in upstate New York.
The five-year contract now up for grabs includes two one-year options, according to the final solicitation. Proposals are due by Sept. 1. DOE thinks the job will require a mostly technical staff of about 15 hands, led by a principal project manager and including engineers and technical editors.
The winner will help establish the framework for a supplemental environmental impact statement due to be published in draft form in 2019. DOE will rely on the document to determine its exact approach to the second and final phase of West Valley demolition. A formal decision on the phase two strategy is due May 12, 2020, according to the just-released request for proposals for technical assistance.
Phase two will include whatever demolition is not completed under phase one, which began in 2011. CH2M BWXT West Valley West Valley is handling phase one demolition under a roughly $525 million West Valley Demonstration Project Interim End State contract that runs through spring 2020.
Phase one calls for removal of: the main plant processing building; the vitrification facility used to immobilize once-liquid high-level waste generated during spent-fuel reprocessing in the late 1960s and early 1970s; and the source area for a 650-foot-by-1,640-foot groundwater plume at the site’s north plateau.
